Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Use Your Windows PC

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Use Your Windows PC

Aug 8, 2010

Kaspersky, the makers of some great PC security tools, reported this week of an interesting hole in the Windows platform. Apparently, if the security certificate being used to install software onto your system has been tampered with, Windows does not pick this up, and fails to report this important breach of the security regime. it seems that a new worm that...

Windows XP Remains Dominant

Windows XP Remains Dominant

Jul 18, 2010

I’ve been seeing some interesting commentary this week about how Windows XP remains the dominant computer operating system, and is still on something like about 75% of systems. Well, to those who are trying to make this look like Windows 7 has failed, it’s like, duh! If Windows 7, in about 8 months on the market, has had such an uptake, then I would...

Your Personal Windows License May Be Tax Deductible

Your Personal Windows License May Be Tax Deductible

Jul 7, 2010

The Austalian Tax Office’s excellent e-Tax software, available now for the PC platform for about ten years or so, is still not available for that ever increasing group in the population that chooses to use a platform other than Windows, Computerworld Australia reported earlier this week. In that article, James Hutchinson mentioned that the ATO was...

Support for Windows XP (SP2) ending on July 13

Support for Windows XP (SP2) ending on July 13

Jun 20, 2010

Microsoft have reminded us – which means everybody – that support for XP with Service Pack 2 ends on July 13. That’s just a couple of weeks away. Please move on to Service Pack 3. Or Windows 7.

The INQ1: Kids Phone Home

The INQ1: Kids Phone Home

Jun 12, 2009

The good folks at three.com.au gave me one of their INQ1 phones to report upon. This is also known as the Facebook Phone, and/or the Skype Phone, due to the fact that this phone includes embedded clients for these, as well as other popular web sites and services. What’s the phone like? Pretty good, and especially so when you take into account its intended...